1898.] of the Coleoptera of South Africa, 353 



which is not found in any other South African Eudema ; the punc- 

 tures on the striae of the elytra are very distinct. 

 Hab. Zambesia (Salisbury). 



Tkibe CHLuENINI. 



Gen. CHL^NIUS 

 Catal., p. 487. 

 Chl^nius enonensis. 



Head and prothorax metallic green, shining ; labrum, antennae, 

 palpi, and legs flavous ; head finely aciculate ; prothorax hardly 

 narrower at base than at apex, rounded laterally, slightly ampliate 

 in the middle and hardly sinuate above the base ; it is very deeply 

 and closely punctured with the intervals raised, and rough, thickly 

 pubescent, and very narrowly edged with yellow ; elytra elongated, 

 almost oblong, a little broader than the prothorax at base, narrowly 

 punctato-striate with the intervals plane, finely shagreened and 

 briefly pubescent, the colour is very dark green, the outer margin 

 has a very narrow yellowish edge, and there is at the apex a sutural 

 flavous triangular patch, the basal part of which reaches the third 

 stria on each side, and the point nearly coalesces with the apical 

 flavous margin ; under side cyaneous, iridescent. Length 12 mm. ; 

 width 5-5^ mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Uitenhage). 



Should follow G. verecundas, Catal., p. 501 



Chl^nius conformis, Dejean, 



Plate XI., fig. 7. 



Spec, vol. v., p. 630. 



Shining metallic green on the head and prothorax, duller green on 

 the elytra, which are clothed with a very brief pubescence, palpi, 

 antennae, and legs flavescent ; head slightly punctulate, labrum 

 flavescent ; prothorax one-fourth broader than long, a little attenuate 

 laterally for about half the length, and nearly straight from there to 

 the basal angle, base straight or nearly so, outer margins carinate 

 and narrow with a flavescent edge ; disk deeply and irregularly 

 punctured, the punctures more closely set and more shallow along 

 the base, and in the basal sub-lateral impressions ; elytra oblong, 



